
Mount Levack () is the mountain rising to 2751 m in
Sullivan Heights
Sullivan Heights () is a compact group of mountains in western Antarctica rising to in Mount Levack centered east-northeast of Mount Tyree in the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. Roughly elliptical in plan and long, the feature include ...
on the east side of
Sentinel Range,
Antarctica
Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest contine ...
. It is located 21 km (13 mi) east of
Mount Ostenso
Mount Ostenso () is a mountain (4,180 m) 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) south of Mount Giovinetto in the main ridge of the Sentinel Range, Antarctica. First mapped by the Marie Byrd Land Traverse Party (1957–58) led by Charles R. Bentley, an ...
, and overlooks
Pulpudeva Glacier to the southwest and lower
Ellen Degenieres to the north. Its ridge is separated from
Mount Farrell
Mount Farrell is a mountain over high, rising just northwest of Dater Glacier and about east of Mount Shear, in the Sullivan Heights on the east side of Sentinel Range in the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It surmounts Pulpudeva Glaci ...
to the south by
Zmeevo Pass and overlooks
Strinava Glacier
Strinava Glacier ( bg, ледник Стринава, lednik Strinava, ) is the 6 km long and 3 km wide glacier in Sullivan Heights on the east side of Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is draining the northeast s ...
to the east-southeast.
The peak was first mapped by USGS from surveys and
U.S. Navy air photos, 1957–59. Named by US-ACAN for Major
Herbert T. Levack,
United States Air Force
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(USAF), who participated in establishing the
South Pole Station in the 1956–57 season.
See also
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Mountains in Antarctica
This is a list of all the Ultra prominent peaks (with topographic prominence greater than 1,500 metres) in Antarctica. Some islands in the South Atlantic have also been included and can be found at the end of the list.
Antarctica
South Atl ...
Maps
* Vinson Massif. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.
References
Ellsworth Mountains
Mountains of Ellsworth Land
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